Daniel Jee / Staff reporter
Now that school matches are over, the junior badminton team is preparing for individual matches which will be held on May 11th in Frasers.
“School matches are done. The next thing is individuals. So that means that now they are competing at the district level, but as individual teams, not for the school anymore,” said Janelle Lee, math teacher and badminton coach, “So the junior badminton right now is preparing for individuals that all be happening later this week.”
In the most recent individual match, Stanley Wang, grade 10 and William Zhu, grade 10 placed top 4 in district for boys doubles.
The last school match was against Pinetree secondary on April 14, which resulted in a loss by 9-2.
“The last few matches, I felt that they were okay,” said Zhu, “I feel that anybody could get better, and especially our team. But I felt that we had good spirit and we all had a lot of fun.”
They are preparing for their next games. And along with the improvement through hard work, they are hoping for good results in the next games.
“On the next match, I feel like we are gonna do, I hope, much better. Because we are going to be sending our best players, and everybody on the team has been improving,” said Zhu, “So, I hope that in our next match, which is individuals, we would be able to win a few games and still have a lot of fun.”
“They are doing well. It’s been really great because a lot of my students in juniors and seniors have been taking a lot of lead and initiative, like they lead the team and they’ve doing a lot of work and taking a lot of responsibility on. Which has been amazing to see the students kind of leading each other, so I think they’ve been doing great job at that,” added Lee.